Why I Have Not Upgrade to WordPress 2.3?

Plugins — I use many wordpress plugins, some are custom hacked. I need to check them for updates or search for similar plugins that support version 2.3.

Tags — As you know, WordPress 2.3 supports native tagging. Currently, I do not use any tagging plugin. All the blog tags you see on previous posts are manual HTML codes. I hope to have a script to import the manual tags to WordPress 2.3.

Blog editor — I need to check to make sure that my favorite blog editor fully support WordPress 2.3.

New theme — I have a new blog theme under development (since long long time ago). I wish to launch the new theme together with WordPress update.

Anyway, I should do the WordPress upgrade soon before the release of version 2.4 in December 2007 (check WP roadmap).

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Liew is believed to be the first full-time blogger in Malaysia since 2005. A former professional programmer and webmaster, Liew courageously made the jump from hobby blogging to blogging as a full-time, successful career. Today he enjoys working from home and spending time with his family.

12 Comments

TimNovember 5, 2007

That’s also the reason why i haven’t upgrade my WP. Maybe wait after new ver 2.4 to come out first….

Since, I’ve just moved to WordPress (it was 2.3 that time), and I was and still making myself familiar with wp, I can’t tell the difference. and of course the plugins i used is not that much and can be supported in 2.3.1 (current)

Take your time to figure it out and waiting for your upgrades and new theme.

@dicky: wordpress is not hard to upgrade, simply upload & replace files then run upgrade script. However, the unexpected problems are headache. I can’t allow my blog down for hours for troubleshooting…

@vangardx: thank you. simple tags is a tagging plugin for wordpress and WP2.3 has the importer for the plugin. It cannot convert my existing manual tags.

@musica0911: if you would want to switch to wordpress, use the latest version. don’t waste your time on earlier version.